When you create a new Invoice for a Customer with a foreign Currency, the Currency and all conversion rate fields will be filled by Hansa as soon as you specify the Customer. The Currency is shown in the footer, taken from the 'Pricing' card of the Customer record or from the Default Base Currency (defined in the Base Currency setting in the System module). If the Currency came from the Customer record, it cannot be changed. Otherwise, any other Currency can be substituted if necessary.

The current conversion rate is shown on the 'Currency' card of the Invoice:

In this historical example, an Invoice has been raised in FIM (Finnish Markka). Base Currency 1 is the home Currency (NLG, Dutch Guilders) and Base Currency 2 is the Euro. The fields on the left show in the form of a ratio the exchange rate between the two Base Currencies (taken from the latest record in the Base Currency Rates setting). Those on the right show the exchange rate between the foreign Currency and Base Currency 2 (taken from the latest record in the Exchange Rate register). The illustration shows the two-stage currency conversion applicable to transactions between two EU countries: the right-hand fields show that FIM 5.94573 buys one Euro (Base Currency 2), while the left-hand fields show that one Euro buys NLG 2.20371 (Base Currency 1, the local Currency), thus establishing a conversion rate between Markka and Guilders.

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